Chapter Summaries

After defeating his opponents, Dongfang Yueming absorbed eight Black-Grade Divine Ability fragments and perfected each ability. He fused them into four Earth-Grade Divine Abilities, leaving him with a powerful new set of techniques.

• Dongfang Yueming collected four storage rings and eight Divine Ability fragments from his defeated opponents.
• He absorbed E Cang's fragments to gain Thunder Crocodile Armor and Death Roll, then perfected both abilities.
• He gained Shadowless Yin Wind and Space-Rending Claw from Ying Ji, and perfected them.
• He gained Nine-Colored Divine Light and Withered Wood Meets Spring from Lu Ming, then perfected them.
• He absorbed Ao Ye's fragments to gain Sea-Overturning Calamity and Black Serpent's Eye, then perfected them.
• Dongfang Yueming fused all eight abilities into Azure Emperor's Longevity Art, Void Strangulation, Three Thousand Weak Waters, and Soul-Stealing Demonic Eye.

Dongfang Yueming fused his Earth-Grade abilities into two Heaven-Grade Divine Abilities, then perfected the Dragon Transformation Art and formed a fifth Nascent Soul. With his power greatly increased, he headed for the Water and Fire Sect, worried that the girl there would cause trouble if he stayed away.

• Dongfang Yueming fused Three Thousand Weak Waters and Soul-Stealing Demonic Eye into the Heaven-Grade ability Yellow Springs and Blue Heavens, which swallowed the lightning tribulation.
• He fused Azure Emperor's Longevity Art and Void Strangulation into Birth and Destruction of All Things, then absorbed another tribulation with a spatial rift.
• Dongfang Yueming spent points to raise the Dragon Transformation Art, forming a dragon Nascent Soul embodying life and death, and subdued it with My Dao Is the Only One.
• His five Nascent Souls manifested together, overwhelming the local cultivators and killing those who had tried to ambush him.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected the Dragon Transformation Art, judged himself capable of confronting a Void Refinement expert, and set off for the Water and Fire Sect.

Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master invaded the Water and Fire Sect and demanded its wealth, threatening to destroy it. Shui Qingrou began to submit to their lewd demands to protect the sect, but Shui Yan'er rushed forward to stop them.

• Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master arrived at the Water and Fire Sect and overwhelmed its disciples with their Late-Stage Nascent Soul pressure.
• Shui Qingrou welcomed the intruders into the sect hall and asked what they wanted.
• Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master demanded two hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones, then ordered the sect to surrender its valuables when Shui Qingrou said it could not pay.
• The Mysterious Nether Sect Master demanded that Shui Qingrou pay with herself, while Valley Master Huo threatened to destroy the sect and sent several elders flying.
• Shui Qingrou began undoing her collar to protect the sect, but Shui Yan'er rushed in front of her mother and shouted for them to stop.

Shui Yan'er sacrificed herself to draw two Nascent Soul experts away from the Water and Fire Sect, then fled into the Astral Battlefield with them in pursuit. After learning what happened, Dongfang Yueming followed her into the battlefield, promising Shui Qingrou he would bring her back.

• Shui Yan'er agreed to leave with Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master to spare her mother and the Water and Fire Sect, then raced toward the Astral Battlefield.
• Shui Yan'er kissed Dongfang Yueming at the teleportation array, urged him to leave, and charged into the Astral Battlefield as the two pursuers followed.
• A guard disciple told Shui Qingrou that Shui Yan'er and the two villains had entered the Astral Battlefield, and Shui Qingrou rushed after them.
• Shui Qingrou told Dongfang Yueming that the two sect leaders had tried to force Shui Yan'er to become their cultivation cauldron.
• Dongfang Yueming entered the Astral Battlefield, promising Shui Qingrou that he would bring Shui Yan'er back.

Shui Yan'er was cornered by Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master, whose combined fire and ice attacks overwhelmed her. Dongfang Yueming arrived and killed both Late-Stage Nascent Soul experts with his Earth-Grade Divine Ability, leaving four divine ability fragments behind.

• Shui Yan'er fought Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master but was badly outmatched by the two Late-Stage Nascent Soul experts.
• Shui Yan'er used her Black-Grade Divine Ability, Water and Fire Without Interruption, but the enemies’ fire and ice abilities resonated and fused, defeating her.
• Valley Master Huo and the Mysterious Nether Sect Master prepared to take Shui Yan'er, who resolved to die rather than suffer humiliation.
• Dongfang Yueming arrived and destroyed the enemies’ combined attack with his Heaven-Grade Divine Ability, Wind God Judgment.
• Dongfang Yueming used his Earth-Grade Divine Ability, Two Aspects Annihilation, to turn both Nascent Soul experts to ashes, leaving four divine ability fragments.

After rescuing Shui Yan'er, Dongfang Yueming sent her back to her sect and fused his water- and fire-based divine abilities into a perfected Earth-Grade technique. He headed to a small world to enter seclusion and attempt an even stronger fusion.

• Shui Yan'er recovered from her injuries with Dongfang Yueming’s help and reluctantly returned to the Water and Fire Sect after he promised to visit her.
• Dongfang Yueming absorbed four divine ability fragments, learning Blazing Flame Fist, Flame Blade, Ice Palm, and Ice Spike.
• Dongfang Yueming fused Blazing Flame Fist and Ice Palm into the perfected Black-Grade Ice and Fire Divine Fist.
• Dongfang Yueming perfected Flame Blade and Ice Spike, then fused them into the perfected Black-Grade Ice and Flame Twin Ultimate Slash.
• Dongfang Yueming fused his two Black-Grade abilities into the perfected Earth-Grade Ice and Fire Purgatory and set out for a small world to enter seclusion.

Shui Yan'er reunited with Shui Qingrou and revealed that Dongfang Yueming had killed the two Nascent Soul cultivators before entering seclusion. In a desolate minor world, Dongfang Yueming fused two divine abilities into a Heaven-Grade technique and survived the resulting heavenly punishment.

• Shui Yan'er returned safely through the teleportation array, and Shui Qingrou embraced her with relief.
• Shui Yan'er told Shui Qingrou that Dongfang Yueming had killed the two attackers and had gone into seclusion.
• Shui Qingrou reconsidered Dongfang Yueming's strength and blushed as she remembered their wager.
• Dongfang Yueming fused Two Aspects Annihilation with Ice and Fire Purgatory, creating the Heaven-Grade divine ability Two Forms Ice and Fire Lotus.
• Dongfang Yueming used the lotus to absorb the heavenly lightning, then prepared to allocate points to his cultivation techniques.

Dongfang Yueming completed his sixth Nascent Soul by perfecting the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art, then headed to the Water and Fire Sect to seek its Soul Formation Chapter and reunite with Shui Yan'er. He arrived after she had left, and Shui Qingrou led him to her private chamber while Shui Yan'er sensed that something was wrong.

• Dongfang Yueming spent points to perfect the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art and formed his sixth Nascent Soul, the Water and Fire Nascent Soul.
• Dongfang Yueming assessed his cultivation techniques and decided to seek lightning-related cultivation at the Purple Thunder Sect before returning to the Water and Fire Sect.
• Shui Yan'er waited anxiously for Dongfang Yueming at the Astral Battlefield teleportation array, but Shui Qingrou persuaded her to return to the sect and recuperate.
• Dongfang Yueming emerged from the teleportation array after Shui Yan'er had left and told Shui Qingrou he wanted to ask for a favor.
• Shui Qingrou brought Dongfang Yueming to her private chamber, while Shui Yan'er felt a sudden, ominous premonition at her cave abode.

Shui Qingrou tried to repay Dongfang Yueming for saving Shui Yan'er by offering herself and giving him a massage, while he mistook her unusual behavior for a possible disguise or charm. Their encounter was interrupted by Shui Yan'er, who saw them together and accused her mother of plotting something improper with him.

• Shui Qingrou changed into a sheer crimson gown, resolving to deepen her bond with Dongfang Yueming for gratitude and the Water and Fire Sect's future.
• Dongfang Yueming mistook Shui Qingrou's appearance for a disguise or the effect of charm and pinned her against the wall before confirming her identity.
• Shui Qingrou said she would offer herself to repay his kindness, then persuaded him to accept a massage despite his attempts to bring up the cultivation technique.
• Shui Qingrou straddled Dongfang Yueming and began massaging him, gradually growing more intimate as he tried to stop the encounter and discuss his purpose.
• Shui Yan'er burst into the room, saw her mother straddling Dongfang Yueming, and accused Shui Qingrou of plotting something improper with him.

Dongfang Yueming visited Shui Qingrou and Shui Yan'er to ask for higher cultivation techniques, while both women mistook his request for something intimate. After Shui Qingrou agreed to help him break her bottleneck, an urgent invitation from Storm Mountain interrupted them.

• Shui Yan'er found Shui Qingrou beside Dongfang Yueming and misunderstood what they had been doing, but softened when Dongfang Yueming explained that he had come because Yan'er was in seclusion.
• Shui Yan'er and Shui Qingrou each mistook Dongfang Yueming's request for a favor as a request for intimacy, and both said they would agree to it.
• Dongfang Yueming clarified that he wanted the Soul Formation Chapter and techniques for even higher realms, embarrassing Shui Yan'er and Shui Qingrou; Shui Qingrou provided the Soul Formation Chapter but said she lacked higher-level techniques.
• Shui Qingrou asked Dongfang Yueming to help loosen her cultivation bottleneck, and he agreed.
• A disciple reported that Storm Mountain had invited the Water and Fire Sect to attend its alliance ceremony with the Purple Thunder Sect the next day.

Dongfang Yueming received the Soul Formation chapter of the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art from Shui Qingrou and helped her bottleneck loosen by sharing his magical power. After Shui Qingrou explained Soul Formation and the grades of Primordial Spirits, she decided to enter seclusion to pursue a breakthrough.

• Shui Qingrou learned that Storm Mountain and the Purple Thunder Sect had invited them to an alliance ceremony and warned Dongfang Yueming that Storm Mountain’s Upper Realm ancestor was attempting to reach Body Integration.
• Shui Qingrou gave Dongfang Yueming the Soul Formation chapter of the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art.
• Shui Qingrou asked Dongfang Yueming to help her break through, and he sent his water-and-fire and Dragon Nascent Souls’ magical power into her.
• Shui Qingrou felt her bottleneck loosen, then explained that Soul Formation unified the Nascent Soul, body, and spirit into a Primordial Spirit with four possible grades.
• Dongfang Yueming left after Shui Qingrou teased him, and Shui Qingrou resolved to enter seclusion until she reached Soul Formation.

Dongfang Yueming returned to the Martial Sect with candied spirit fruits, drove off Storm Mountain’s envoys, and obtained the Soul Formation Chapter of the I Alone Am Supreme Technique. Hong Ling advised him to combine many schools of cultivation into a Great Dao of his own, leaving him wondering where to find them.

• Dongfang Yueming gathered spirit fruits and spirit honey, made candied spirit fruits, and returned to the Martial Sect, where he shared them with Hong Ling and Qin Rushuang.
• Storm Mountain’s Golden Core cultivators demanded that the Martial Sect attend its alliance ceremony with the Purple Thunder Sect, but Dongfang Yueming’s aura frightened them into fleeing.
• Hong Ling agreed that the Martial Sect would attend the ceremony and gave Dongfang Yueming the Soul Formation Chapter of the I Alone Am Supreme Technique.
• Hong Ling advised Dongfang Yueming to combine the strengths of many schools and forge his own Great Dao, and he wondered where he could find those schools.

Dongfang Yueming used points to cultivate the I Alone Am Supreme Technique’s Soul Formation Chapter, reaching perfection and forming a Supreme-Grade Primordial Spirit fused with his Heaven-Grade divine ability. With his Martial Dao at Soul Formation Perfection, he turned to the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art as his next goal.

• Dongfang Yueming spent 800,000 points to begin cultivating the I Alone Am Supreme Technique’s Soul Formation Chapter and formed a Supreme-Grade Primordial Spirit.
• Dongfang Yueming spent more points to advance his Martial Dao cultivation through the Soul Formation Ninth Layer.
• Dongfang Yueming reached Soul Formation Perfection, and My Dao Is the Only One merged with his primordial spirit.
• Dongfang Yueming checked his remaining points and took out the Water-Fire Mutual Aid Art’s Soul Formation Chapter.

Dongfang Yueming advanced four cultivation arts to Soul Formation Perfection and discovered that even a trace of their combined power could destroy his chamber. At the Love Palace, Li Hongxiu lamented the distance between herself and Dongfang Ri before an envoy from Storm Mountain arrived with an invitation to an alliance ceremony.

• Dongfang Yueming used points to cultivate Water-Fire, Blood, and Dragon Transformation arts until he had four supreme-grade primordial spirits at Soul Formation Perfection.
• Dongfang Yueming briefly tried to fuse the four primordial spirits, destroying his secluded cultivation chamber and shaking the Martial Sect's divine mountain before he stopped.
• Li Hongxiu watched over the mortal world and recalled how learning about her mother and sister had brought her to the Love Palace as a holy maiden.
• Li Qingyue asked Li Hongxiu whether she still thought about Dongfang Ri, and Li Hongxiu admitted she believed they belonged to different worlds.
• An envoy from Storm Mountain arrived at the Love Palace to present its holy maiden with an invitation to an alliance ceremony.

Feng Wuhen invited the Love Palace to Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony, and Li Hanyi decided the sect would seal its gates after attending. Li Hongxiu despaired at the thought of being separated from Dongfang Ri, while Li Qingyue comforted her and wondered whether she might someday have to share her sister’s fate with him.

• Feng Wuhen delivered Storm Mountain’s invitation to Li Hongxiu and Li Qingyue, boasting of his Early Nascent Soul cultivation and making his interest in Li Hongxiu obvious.
• Li Hanyi accepted the invitation and announced that the Love Palace would seal its mountain gates after the ceremony, forbidding disciples from leaving while the gates remained closed.
• Li Hongxiu feared she would never see Dongfang Ri again, and Li Hanyi ordered her and Li Qingyue to accompany her to Storm Mountain the next morning.
• Li Hongxiu returned to her chambers and wept in the spirit pool, grieving the possibility that her bond with Dongfang Ri had ended.
• Li Qingyue joined Li Hongxiu in the pool, promised they would never be apart, and privately wondered whether that might mean joining her sister if she found Dongfang Ri.

After Huo Fentian and Xuanmingzi died, Venerable Huolie and Ancestor Xuanbing confronted Shui Yunrou at the Water and Fire Sect. They concluded the sect masters had gone to the Lower Realm and set off to investigate, leaving Shui Yunrou relieved but worried for the Lower Realm Water and Fire Sect.

• A disciple discovered that Huo Fentian’s life soul jade slip had shattered, and Blazing Flame Valley learned that its valley master was dead.
• Venerable Huolie learned Huo Fentian had last visited the Water and Fire Sect and went there to demand answers.
• Ancestor Xuanbing arrived at the Water and Fire Sect after learning that Xuanmingzi’s life tablet had shattered, and both ancestors questioned Shui Yunrou.
• Shui Yunrou said Huo Fentian and Xuanmingzi had left after failing to borrow spirit stones, and argued her sect could not have killed them.
• Ancestor Xuanbing proposed that the two sect masters had gone to the Lower Realm, and Venerable Huolie agreed that the killer might be there.
• Venerable Huolie and Ancestor Xuanbing set off for the Lower Realm, while Shui Yunrou sighed with concern for the Lower Realm Water and Fire Sect.

Shui Qingrou emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Soul Formation and prepared to attend Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony. After Shui Yan'er insisted on supporting the man who had saved her, Shui Qingrou agreed that they would face the danger alongside him.

• Shui Qingrou’s Soul Formation aura shook the Water and Fire Sect, and she confirmed to the elders that she had broken through.
• Shui Qingrou ordered Nascent Soul elders to accompany her to Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony.
• Shui Yan'er learned that Shui Qingrou had dual cultivated with the man and became jealous, then insisted on going to find and support him.
• Shui Yan'er told her mother she would stand with the man in life and death, prompting Shui Qingrou to agree that they would join him.

Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang left the Martial Sect for Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony, while Meiji learned Dongfang Yueming’s identity and planned to lure him to the Pleasure Sect. The chapter left Meiji’s scheme in motion as Hong Ling watched the pair depart with an unreadable gaze.

• Qin Rushuang worried that Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony was a trap, but Hong Ling and Dongfang Yueming reassured her.
• Dongfang Yueming promised Qin Rushuang that he would protect her, and she vowed to protect him in return.
• Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang departed for Storm Mountain while Hong Ling watched them go.
• A Pleasure Sect disciple reported to Meiji that Dongfang Ri was Dongfang Yueming, a Martial Sect disciple.
• Meiji ordered the former Pleasure Sect master to use Su Wurao’s name to lure Dongfang Yueming back to the Pleasure Sect after the ceremony.

At Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony, Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang arrived to open contempt, but Dongfang’s reunion with Li Hongxiu stirred jealousy and alarm among those watching. The chapter ended with Feng Wuhen confronting Li Hongxiu about whether she knew Dongfang.

• Upper Realm Sword Sect elders and Lin Qingyao agreed to attend Storm Mountain’s alliance ceremony.
• Major sects arrived at Storm Mountain, including the Sword Sect, Exquisite Grotto-Heaven, Water and Fire Sect, and Love Palace.
• Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang arrived without fanfare, and Feng Wuhen had them seated beside a pile of garbage.
• Dongfang recognized Li Hongxiu, who was overwhelmed to see him, while Qin Rushuang grew jealous and Li Qingyue recognized him as Dongfang Ri.
• Feng Wuhen, jealous of Dongfang, asked Li Hongxiu whether she knew the man he called a piece of trash.

At the ceremony, Dongfang Yueming silenced an arrogant Iron Sword Sect disciple and forced the sect’s Nascent Soul elder to kneel with his aura. Elder Xue Tu recognized him and paid his respects, while Lin Qingyao noticed her old acquaintance and reflected on the Martial Sect’s dangerous position.

• The Blood Refining Sect arrived at the ceremony, led by Elder Xue Tu, and took the core VIP seats.
• An Iron Sword Sect disciple insulted Dongfang Yueming and Qin Rushuang, so Dongfang Yueming’s pressure paralyzed the disciple and drove the sect’s Nascent Soul elder to his knees.
• Xue Tu recognized Dongfang Yueming as the man connected to the Blood Refining Sect master’s disappearance and respectfully cupped his fists toward him.
• Dongfang Yueming realized Xue Tu might know the later methods of the Blood God Scripture.
• Lin Qingyao recognized Dongfang Yueming as the young man from the Great Xia Martial Arts Academy, while a Lin Family elder dismissed him as a minor cultivator.